On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 02:06:46PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > Just a point of information regarding the frame buffer and linux-4.0.1. On > running this kernel I was greeted with a blank screen. It turned out that > CONFIG_X86_SYSFB=y (for which I have no use) had been set which succeeded > in overriding my normal frame buffer settings resulting in the blank > screen. I don't remember selecting this option, but who knows? Any way, I > then discovered that setting CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE=y returns the system to > normality (for me) whether CONFIG_X86_SYSFB has been set or not. > > I just wondered if anybody else had come across this. > > Richard
I see that I've got CONFIG_X86_SYSFB=y on 4.0.1 on my r600+ machine (RS780L) where CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE is not set, and all is working for me with radeon KMS. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
